good morning to our viewers in the west, it is wednesday, june 19th, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." overnight four american troops are killed in afghanistan. and the country's leader walks away from talks with the united states. president obama goes to berlin, calling for dramatic changes to the world's nukes. obesity now recognized as a disease. what it means for the fight against fat. we begin with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> these programs are critical to the intelligence community's ability to protect our security. >> the nsa director defends the government's secret surveillance program. >> general keith alexander said

the program helped foil more than 50 terror plot around the globe. >> i haven't heard of a single case that couldn't have been captured or investigated with a traditional judicial warrant. at the bagram air base near kabul, four american soldiers have been killed. the taliban is claiming responsibility. despite an announcement that the u.s. and the taliban are resuming direct peace talks. >> the president of afghanistan says he is suspending talks with the u.s. on a long-term security deal. the protest just announced negotiations. president obama delivering an historic speech. >> nuclear weapons by up to one-third, and i seek to negotiated cuts with russia. another problem for boeing's 787 dreamliner. a united airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in seattle. >> one of the interesting things and the battery went out a couple months ago, is something next going to happen?

walter williams was added to the fbi's most-wanted list. he's now been captured in mexico. police have questioned aaron hernandez in a homicide investigation. >> he is not a suspect but police did search his home. tie game! blocked by born. there will be a game seven. we couldn't do the show without mr. schafer, nor would we choose to. >> that gives me a hint about your talents. and "all that matters." >> it's over 1,000 pages long. some critics say the bill is too long for the average american to read. >> on "cbs this morning." >> senator marco rubio is proposing an amendment that would require all immigrants to speak english before earning a green card. >> it's about to become official. the rules to become an american citizen are now more stringent than the rules to become miss utah.

welcome to "cbs this morn g morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. >> a stunning turn of events in afghanistan. only hours after the taliban said it was ready to talk with the united states, four american troops are dead. >> and there are major developments on the diplomatic front. charlie d'agata is tracking the breaking news in london. charlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. u.s. military officials in kabul confirmed that four american soldiers were killed in a rocket or mortar attack late last night. the taliban said they fired two rockets into bagram. this is the heavily fortified air force base outside the capitol. this latest attack just underlines the fact that the fighting will go on whatever the hope of finding peace. in the meantime, the taliban literally cut the ribbon on its new office in doha yesterday, opening the door for direct talks with the u.s. this morning a surprise announcement from afghan president karzai whose government won't recognize the

taliban's office, is suspending vital talks with the u.s. over troop levels and it's cast doubt over whether those negotiations will now take place. it's apparently in protest to being shut out of bilateral talks between the u.s. and taliban. yesterday a taliban spokesman made clear they have no desire to meet with karzai or his representatives. the question now is whether those talks will go ahead. charlie and norah? >> charlie d'agata, thanks. president obama is speaking this morning at one of germany's most famous sites, berlin's historic brandenburg gate. he's calling for changes in the world's nuclear stockpiles. major garrett filed this report just minutes ago. >> reporter: well, good morning, charlie and norah. president obama chose the historic backdrop to give the speech he's delivering now which the white house considers a significant milestone in his foreign policy agenda. the president will call for simultaneous reductions of nuclear stockpiles of the united states and russia. part of his overall goal of

eliminating nuclear weapons worldwide. >> after a conference of review, i've determined that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third. and i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia to move beyond cold war nuclear posture. >> reporter: before the speech, mr. obama met with german chancellor angela merkel who pressed him on the scope of national security agency surveillance, specifically internet data mining as a counterterrorism strategy. the president assured germans afterward the program is legal and circumscribed, and no one is trolling through german internet data. charlie and norah, from berlin, back to you. congress will learn more today about how secret american pterror attacks. prevented the meeting will be classified. but yesterday the director of the nsa went public.

>> bob orr is in washington. bob, good morning. >> good morning. u.s. intelligence officials frankly are not used to publicly talking about their most secret operations. but the head of the national security agency told congress that americans need to know that programs which sweep up telephone and internet data are critical to national security. general keith alexander testified the data collection am practices played a direct role in disrupting more than 50 potential attacks since 9/11. >> i would much rather be here today debating this point than trying to explain how we failed to prevent another 9/11. >> reporter: alexander said at least ten of the thwarted plots involved homeland-based threats. two of those were publicly revealed for the first time by fbi deputy director shawn joyce. nsa intercepts helped the fbi arrest a san diego man for planning to send money to a terror group based in somalia. and surveillance of a terrorist

in yemen led to a kansas city, missouri, man who was plotting an attack on new york's financial center. >> we were able to disrupt the plot. we were able to lure some individuals to the united states, and we were able to effect their arrest. >> reporter: u.s. officials had previously revealed two other potential threats uncovered by the data programs. nsa tracking of terrorist communications led to the arrest of a colorado man for plotting to bomb new york's subways. similar intelligence nabbed chicagoan david headley. who was connected to the 2008 mumbai attacks and a plan to bomb a newspaper office in denmark. but critics argue the u.s. government can stop terrorists using less invasive programs. you're saying more narrowly targeted intelligence efforts can thwart these attacks without this vast sweep? >> absolutely. >> reporter: phil vinny, a former nsa code breaker turned

whistleblower believes the american people are being misled. >> first of all they don't believe they're being bamboozled into thinking you have to do this to find bad guys. that's false, okay. there are very simple principles to figure out who is the bad guy in the world and who isn't. without violating anybody's privacy. >> reporter: meanwhile, one of the internet companies that is providing data to u.s. intelligence is now asking for more transparency in the process. google wants the fisa court to allow companies now to give the public details about government requests for information. charlie? norah? >> bob, thanks. with us, our senior corresponde correspondent, john miller, former fbi assistant director. good morning. >> morning. >> are there more details about the thwarted plots that if we understood them, we would know how vital the surveillance is? >> well, i think in a closed briefing, they'll get into exactly which part of which program picked up which plot. but when you look at the 50 plots, each one is different. i mean, if you look at the zazi case, that was about to happen.

had it not been for the nsa program, that plot would have likely gone bombs on the subway. if you look at other plots, they were at various stages of planning, but they still demonstrate if you were scanning the horizon, would this program pick it up? the question we would ask, if there was a plan to blow up the boston marathon and it was being planned in a foreign place as opposed to in boston, would this program have picked it up? and i think that's the question that they were trying to get in front of congress. >> what about critics who say this hearing yesterday was a pr stunt in some ways just to justify the administration's use of this program? and the charge made by this whistleblower that you don't need this much sweeping data in order to prevent attacks? >> you know, the whistleblower has a point here which is there is another way to do it. and i think congressman shipp brought that up yesterday, which is if you get the lead, couldn't

you just go get the warrant and the phone numbers? and that is true. the difference is -- and i'm not sure that there's a right answer here -- if you've ever been in the heart of the fbi headquarters building during one of these crises, and you're getting pressure to stop some terrorist operation, the idea of writing a complicated legal document, an nsl national security letter or a fisa warrant to get each piece of information slows things to a crawl. the idea that you have a database covered by a court order that you can quickly search against millions of numbers, that's a real advantage when you're under life and death pressure. >> what is the one big concern by people on the inside that they worry may come out of these conversations? >> the concern is always the same whenever there's one of these leaks. the president made this point, and general alexander made this point, which is every time one of these leaks comes over, the world does not end as we know it. but i'll tell you what does happen, and this is true.

the terrorists follow this stuff on an organizational level very closely. they study it carefully. they change their communications techniques. they try to find either services or servers that aren't covered, different ways to talk. and what happens is you lose those intelligence collection platforms for a time, and you have to rebuild. it's frustrating for them. >> john miller, thank you. and the house has passed a sweeping anti-abortion bill even though it has no chance of becoming law. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, what's behind this vote? >> reporter: well, republicans say what's behind it is new science, while democrats say what's behind it is an anti-woman agenda. so it's a familiar debate but one that got more attention, first of all, because republicans had been trying to reach out to women lately, and second because the bill's author, arizona's trent franks, may have offended some of them when he argued that women who get raped are less likely to get pregnant. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: the bill house

republicans passed last night would ban abortions after 20 weeks. >> hr-1797 is based on undisputed scientific evidence which tells us that unborn children at 20 weeks and older can feel pain. >> reporter: the bill's author, arizona's trent franks, stayed out of sight, sidelined after he made this statement last week. >> the incidents of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low. >> reporter: it was exactly the kind of comment republicans had been hoping to avoid after missouri senate candidate todd akin turned off voters with a similar assertion last year. >> if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> reporter: on wednesday republican leaders appointed a woman to lead the debate instead of franks. >> we do not support more gosnell-like abortions. >> reporter: she and her colleagues suggest that the disturbing abortions of dr.

kermit gosnell who was charged with aborting three babies alive. she pointed out gosnell's actions are already illegal. >> we do not need to change the law. the doctor is convicted and doing two life sentences. >> reporter: this is about the tenth time that republicans have held a vote on abortion in the house since they took control of the house back in 2011. and for the tenth time, democrats in the senate who control that body will ignore it. so democrats argue that this is all a waste of time. but republicans, norah and charlie, say that it's important to keep this issue in the public eye. >> nancy, thank you. another major story on capitol hill. the immigration debate. the congressional budget office says if the reform bill passes, it would boost the economy and cut the federal deficit by $200 billion in the next decade. but now there are fears it may not happen at all. our political director john dickerson is in washington. john, good morning. >> reporter: morning, charlie. >> so what's the impact of this

cbo report? >> reporter: well, i think for those who are pushing comprehensive immigration reform, it's a second big argument for them. they've been making the moral case that the immigration system has to be fixtured. now they can make an economic case that it's actually good for the economy. and critics, though, of this have seen a kind of push to get this bill rammed through. and so a lot of conservatives think that cbo is kind of tweaking the numbers here. they don't believe this will be good for the economy at all. >> john, what does it portend for the future of the immigration bill in the house when a key committee just passed a bill that would make it a federal crime to be in the united states illegally? >> reporter: the central tension to watch in this bill is between getting those undocumented workers passed towards citizen-and what house conservatives and all conservatives worry about, which is strong enforcement to keep illegal immigrants from coming into the country. that's what this bill aims to do. and as we see, the larger bill go through, the question is will

those strict house measures kill a final comprehensive immigration reform or will the republicans find a way to work some of them into this bill so that it can pass? >> i want to turn now to hillary clinton. who's not declared she's running for president, but people are already announcing their support for her including senator claire mccaskill. a democrat of missouri. who supported barack obama in 2008. what do you think this means in this new political action committee called ready for hillary that's already formed and holding rallies? >> reporter: well, the early bird gets the worm. in this case the worm isn't even born yet. and, you know, claire mccaskill said that she wants to kind of nudge hillary into running. that's certainly what this committee is trying to do. but mccaskill also, as you mentioned, was an early supporter of barack obama. she's now getting right, perhaps, with hillary clinton and getting out there earlier and supporting her. she also made a bit of a crack about bill clinton many years ago. she said he was a great

president, but i wouldn't want my daughter near him. so she gets out there early, declares her support. the primaries are almost three years away. as a practical matter, it has no real influence. >> but don't you love talking about it? >> reporter: well, we can't start too early, charlie. >> thank you, john. an nfl player was questioned for hours last night by police in massachusetts. they're investigating a possible homicide. aaron hernandez is a tight end with the new england patriots. a body was found not far from his home. our boston station wbz is in massachusetts. bree, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. police swarmed airpla ee eed he tuesday evening. investigators are not calling him a suspect in this investigation, but they did find an suv near the crime scene that led them to his doorstep. dozens of massachusetts state police officers spent hours at the home of new england patriots' tight end aaron hernandez late tuesday.

they refused to comment on hernandez's possible involvement in the death of a man who was found a half mile from hernandez's home. the body was discovered monday evening in this clearing by a teenage jogger. the jogger alerted an employee at an industrial park. he did not want to go on camera. >> saw an african-american male, probably 25 to 35 years old, decently dressed. he was, you know, stiff, motionless. one of the police officers came back later and said it looked like the guy had been shot somewhere else and dumped here. >> reporter: a 2013 chevrolet suburban recommendigistered to car agency in hernandez's name was found near the scene. though police say hernandez is not considered a suspect, they searched his home. at one point two unidentified men tried to leave the driveway in a white sedan but were stopped and led away for questioning. >> they said that there was a vehicle involved but nothing proven. >> reporter: last week while

fielding questions about tim tebow, hernandez talked about being constantly surrounded by the press. >> the media's always going to be around whether it's 1 or 20 of them. and you answer the questions and keep moving. >> reporter: the 23-year-old hernandez is one of the patriots' top offensive players and currently recovering from a football injury. to this point the district attorney's office has declined to release the victim's name or say how he may have been connected to hernandez. i'm bree season, charlie and norah, back to you. >> thank you. new and violent anti-government clashes broke out overnight in brazil. more than 50,000 demonstrators packed the streets of sao paulo. demonstrators are furious about corruption. this all started after a jump in the cost of public transportation. some of those fare hikes with being dropped. time to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. "the los angeles times" says the fbi captured one of the newest addition to the ten most-wanted list. former usc professor walter lee williams was arrested in mexico

last night. he is charged with sex crimes against children. williams became the 500th person ever to appear on the most-wanted list. "usa today" says no remains have been found after a second day of searching for jimmy hoffa. investigators are digging up a field in michigan. a cadaver dog picked up a scent yesterday, but no conclusive evidence has been found. the search continues today. "the seattle times" says that boeing 787 was diverted to seattle because of a problem with an oil filter. the united plane was headed to tokyo from denver. the entire dreamliner fleet was grounded earlier this year because of battery problems. and "rolling stone" says michael hastings has died in a car accident in los angeles. he's best known for his article about america's former commander in afghanistan, stanley mcchrystal. mcchrystal was forced to we have a lot of sunshine coming our way today but the winds will be kicking up at times especially near the coastline and through some of

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over at the bay bridge the meters lights are on around 6:00. it is stacked up into the macarthur maze and continues slow all the way out towards the tunnel. checking some drive times, one of our busiest drive times is that ride through the altamont pass and the livermore valley. also, westbound 80 carquinez bridge to the maze, we have brake lights from berkeley on down. that drive time is more than 30 minutes. that's a check of traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right, a lot of sunshine around the bay area, still a couple of patches of fog but the winds kicking up, breezy in spots early on. fairly quiet though toward mount diablo with sunny skies. temperatures mainly in the 50s outside now. as we head toward the afternoon, i think a little blustery toward the coastline in through some of the mountain gaps. temperatures going to be in the 60s and 70s inside the bay. mid- to upper 70s inland. warmer weather toward the weekend. ,,

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a classic finish in game six of the nba finals. lebron james led a frantic fourth quarter rally. they managed to avoid elimination. tony parker made two critical shots put the spurs up by two. but within five seconds the game was sent into overtime. chris bosh blocked shots to preserve the miami lead. they won. the decisive game seven kicks off tomorrow night in miami. would love to be there. >> who are you saying that to? chris, let me go.

so you watched the game sniet was so good. if you love the sport and you grew up in north carolina, you can't not not love the sport. >> how does north carolina have to do with it? >> i grew up in san antonio. >> north carolina is a basketball state. >> okay. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> yes, exactly. good morning. coming up this half hour, a story you'll see only on "cbs this morning." the battle against international car thieves. luxury cars are being stolen in the u.s. but you're going to see how technology is stopping it at water's edge. a one-time hit man says he saw bulger carry out murder but can the prosecution's star witness be trusted? more than one in three american adults is obese. now the american medical association is recognizing obesity as a disease. it could be an important step for awareness and prevention.

good morning. >> good morning. >> what is the significance of this announcement? >> we know as obesity researchers that obesity is a disease, but the fact that the american medical association has recognized it will have tremendous impact on legislation in washington with insurance companies. it carries a lot of weight. >> one in three american adults has obesity, overweight. do you think this will cause insurers to pay for some of the treatments for obesitisome. >> i think so. if you look at insurance policy they generally exclude obesity treatment. people come in, they think they should be treated because they have health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, even cancers are caused by obesity and yet that treatment is excluded. >> the medical community, there's been a clear understanding that obesity is a disease. >> that's right. >> or not. >> it's become very clear in the

past few years that as people gain weight, damage occurs to the signaling pathways between the fat cell, the stomach, the intestine, and the brain. the brain can't tell how much food is coming in and how much fat is stored. >> why is it taking so long? >> because it takes a while before these types of research findings are translated into a group like the ama recognizing this. but the fact this this was overwhelmingly recognized by the ama, i think, says volumes. >> you have been on the front lines of the fight against obesity. this is a big deal. i know you believe that. what do you think it will do in terms of prevention? >> i think that prevention is key. but we've got to start very, very early and we've got to be very serious about it. but if that doesn't work, then we have to implement treatment programs and we haven't been doing that very well. >> and so what about somebody like mayor bloomberg here in new

york trying to ban certain sized drinks because of sugar content. will you see more of that because of obesity being recognized as a disease? >> i think we should see things like that. now, should it be that exact effort? you could debate that. but i think that that will have more weight behind it. >> and i think with people who struggle with weight issues, i think the biggest issue is whether insurance will help pay for it. people who want to have the sleeve surgery, by pass surgery, lap band surgery, when their insurance doesn't cover, that that's very tough. >> anyone who's obese will tell you they want to lose weight. this is not a choice. anyone who thinks that doesn't know what they're talking about. i think if people had the kind of medical options that are now available, they would take them. >> at the bottom line do you tell your patients two things they have to do, eat wiser and less food and get a lot of exercise? is it that simple?

>> if it were that simple, i wouldn't have a job. so there are nuances to this. there's medical therapy, surgeries, other things. again, once obesity is established there are physical mechanisms that take hold that make it very difficult for people to lose weight. >> all right. dr. lou aronny, thank you. now for a story you'll see only on "cbs this morning." the fbi says 725,000 cars and trucks were stoleen in this country last year. their value nearly $4.5 billion. because of that we all end up paying higher insurance rates. well, one of the big targets is luxury cars and now bill whitaker is showing us how law enforcement is using technology to smash an international theft ring. >> reporter: a team at the border and customs boards a massive cargo ship after a long

sail. what are you looking for when you get onboard a ship? >> when we come onboard a ship, we're looking for anything out of the ordinary. >> reporter: that's a huge job for a ship this big. >> yes, big job. >> reporter: 3,500 containers 14 stories tall. this is incredible. >> yeah. >> reporter: mean incredible, five containers they suspect is hiding luxury cars that just weeks earlier with shipped to china. >> these were manifest coming out of used furniture. there was a signal coming from a lojack. this container has five vehicles in it. >> reporter: authorities believe it started like this one. instead of driving those car home, these straw buyers, some

using forged identities, delivered them to kochb spir tors working at the port. within days the cars were on their way to china. we've been told they were two to three times the sticker price value over there. >> reporter: two to three times. >> yes. >> reporter: this shipment never made it to the streets of hong kong. investigators suspected foul play and intercepted. >> they did not disembark. they stayed on the vessel and then came back with them. >> reporter: customs officers pulled the containers off the ship. by now they suspect there are 30 more cars involved in multiple shipment bus they're still not 100% sure what's inside, so the investigation goes high-tech. they don't want to break open the export seals and contaminate the seals inside if they're legitimate, so they use this

truck based mobile scanner first. >> the truck just drives down the line of containers? >> yeah. the truck is going to go forward, scan five containers and take an image of it, an x-ray of the container. >> reporter: sort of like getting your teeth x-rayed at the dentist. >> exactly. >> reporter: doesn't look like used furniture to me. >> this container has two vehicles inside. when i see something not right, send it to the warehouse. >> reporter: and so it goes over and over again. the cars stacked up. >> looks like we even got two vehicles, a lexus 3-s 50 very and the price tags go. when the discovery is ore, they have 47 vehicles all connected to the same ring. >> the more losses the insurance

companies sustain, the more your rates go up. eventually it does trickle down. >> the cars go back to their rightful owner bus the criminals who mastermind the scream are most likely overseas. in the meantime it's a daily game of finding some very stylish needles in a very big haystack. for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in long beach. >> it's like right out of the movies. >> it is. what an incredible story. 47 luxury vehicles that they're selling overseas. >> clearly there's somebody who will buy them when they get there. >> no doubt. no doubt. all right. a former mob hit man is being grilled. on tuesday he told stories of cold-blooded murder. he said bulger was part of i. that's nextxt. tomorrow on "cbcbs this

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there's newly released video. this happened in 2008. the new video shows the suspected bomber riding a blue bicycle. no one was hurt in the blast. a $65,000 reward is being offered in the case. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> the trial of mob boss jimmy bulger is continuing.

john mat a rah noi is going on his third day as a star witness. rikki klieman is with us. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what's the highlight of yesterday? >> high light is the prosecution and then the defense. let's look at the defense. john martorano put a gun in whitey bulger's hand. one of the most notorious in boston, the gunning down of brian halloran and the innocent truck driver michael don a han who was giving him a lift. gangland style walks away sniet was an incredible day of testimony, right? >> incredible because the defense really got to do its job. we find that hang brennan who is

the other lawyer besides james carney who is defending whitey wul bul jer does by what everyo everyone's assessment was a brilliant job of cross-examination. >> what does that mean? how did he do it? >> what begins -- you want to wake a jury up? you're a mass murderer, aren't you? >> no, i'm not. >> basically what part of that question do you disagree with? no, i'm not. why not. because i didn't really take money. i did it for friends and money. he asks john martorano, this sociopath mass murderer, if he's not a mass murderer, i don't know who it is. cold blooded murderer, at the end of the day, he kills his friend because he was asked to. he said, did you look him in the eye before you killed him. >> do you believe the defense

destroyed the prosecution's key witness? >> i think they destroyed john m martorano because of the person he is. >> of course, there's fabulous color behind these characters, talking about family in first, my priest taught me that, the nuns taught me that. >> the nuns taught me that. the worst thing you could though 'do that is be a judas. that's why i'm here because whitey was an informer. >> and we're paying you to do this. >> and they're paying me to do all right. still a couple of patches of fog around the bay area looking towards san jose. we have a couple of clouds there and a mix of sun and clouds and fog at the coast. we are going to see mostly sunny skies today. the winds will probably be the big weather story. temperatures now in the 50s. but by the afternoon those

winds will kick up, blustery at the coastline and through the mountain gaps. 60s and 70s for highs inside the bay. mid- to upper 70s in some of the valleys and 60s at the coast with the wind warmer over the next couple of days. summer sunshine for saturday. only one third of americans trust president obama and that's better than other top officials. we'll ask pollster frank luntz why americans are losing faith in their leaders. they that's ahead on "cbs this morning." i've discovered gold.

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald major league b ver its indeci good morning, everyone. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. san jose is suing major league baseball over its indecision on whether to allow the as to move to the city. the lawsuit challenges baseball's exemption to antitrust laws. the san francisco giants who are actively blocking the as move. the giants refuse to share territorial rights to santa clara county, which they were granted during the giants' failed attempt to move to san jose back in the 1990s. a motel 6 along interstate 80 in fairfield is still closed after it was damaged by a nearby grass fire yesterday evening. inspectors are expected to assess the damage later today. traffic and weather in just a moment. ,,

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good morning. we're closely watching a car fire still blocking the two right lanes. emergency crews are on scene. northbound 680 right before the highway 242 exit. and you can see actually slowing in both directions heading into and out of concord. also, very heavy traffic right now on westbound 580 as you cross the richmond/san rafael bridge. and over at the bay bridge, metering lights are on, stacked up well into the maze. here's lawrence. skies looking very nice in spots. still a couple of patches of fog in toward san jose and out along the coastline. blue skies over coit tower right now and san francisco. a little breeze though beginning to kick up. in fact, 21-mile-an-hour winds at sfo right now. temperatures generally in the 50s. by the afternoon those winds gusty coastside. you will see 60s and 70s inside the bay and mid- to upper 70s in many of the valleys. ,, ,,,,,,,,

. it is 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president obama speaks to a packed audience at germany's historic brandenburg gates. why most americans do not trust the president or any other leaders. barbara tries sand goes to israel where she criticizes orthodox jus for the treatment of women. consumer report makes the best new mobile devices. >> we can forge a new international framework. >> the president calls for simultaneous production of nuclear stockpiles for the united states and russia. >> four american soldiers were

killed. the taliban said they fired two rockets into bagram, a heavily fortified air base outside the capital. a stunning turn of events in afghanistan hours after the taliban said it was ready to talk with the united states. >> the head of the national security agency told congress americans need to know the programs that sweep up telephone and internet data are critical to national security. >> the idea you have a database that's covered by a court order that you can click and search against millions of numbers, that's a real advantage when you are under life and death pressure. >> hillary clinton who has not declared she is running for president. >> the early bird gets the worm. the worm isn't born yet. >> lebron james calls it the best game he has been part of. decisive game 7 tips off tomorrow night. >> the story you will see only on cbs. the battle against international car thieves. >> learn more about how secret

american surveillance prevents terrorist attacks. >> not that big of a deal to me. a lot of people were upset. i like to think i have a friend. today's eye openers presented by hilton. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. five years ago, barack obama drew a huge crowd for an outdoor speech in berlin, germany. this morn, president obama spoke again to the people of berlin. major garrett is traveling with the president. he attended the speech at brandenburg gate. good morning. welcome to berlin. three issues dominated president obama's brief one-day visit in germany. surveillance, syria and nuclear weapons. in a speech that the president just concluded at the brandenburg gate in the heart of berlin, he said the united states and russia should pursue additional nuclear arms.

the united states could cut their nuclear stockpiles by as much as one-third. the president said that is his overall goal, part of a long-term strategy to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide. on syria, the president refused to specify during a press conference with german chancellor angela merkel. mr. obama tried to reassure a german public made nervous by revelation of national security internet data mining as a counter terrorism strategy that the program was narrow, circumstance couple described and legal and it had thwarted up to 50 terrorist a, ta. no one in america is rifling through german database information. back to you. a new poll shows only 35% of americans trust the president. that was taken before the government's secret surveillance program was revealed. republican pollster, frank luntz did the survey.

he is also a cbs news political analyst. >> nobody trusts anybody anymore. >> what's the problem? >> the problems is you are told something one day and different the next and change it the next. republicans aren't trusted. democrats aren't trusted. congress is at its lowest numbers in modern history. we feel all these institutions have let us down. we have no confidence in them. i think this is acidic. this is a very dangerous trend in american society. who is supposed to bring you together? who is supposed to unite you? who are you to turn to when things go wrong to know things will go wrong? >> you said it was more than politics. elaborate on that. >> they don't trust businesses. if you can put the numbers back up, ceos perform worse than the irs and wall street performs worse than the irs. nobody likes the irs. these are organizations.

this he don't trust the media. they don't trust what happens in spores events. there is a crisis in confidence in this country. it prevents us from finding solutions to the challenges that we face. in some cases, people just fold their arms and sit back and say, i'm out of it. >> people rebuild trust how? >> the only way they rebuild trust is to acknowledge you made a mistake, to admit you got it wrong and to try to convince people it is better to attempt to find solutions than it is to sit back and do nothing. >> why did you take on trust, frank, of all the things? why did you decide i want to look at trust? you did this before the nsa. >> i did this because this is the number one attribute that americans want in their elected officials, business leaders and day to day life. if you lose that number one life, if you lose that prioritization of things that

matter, what else matters after it? this is a wakeup call. >> let's suppose the president reads the numbers and wants to improve his relationship with the american people and trust. what does he do? >> he do something most politicians never do, acknowledge you made a mistake or do what harry truman did, accept responsibility, whether or not it was done by the people that work closest to you. you accept responsibility and you seem some sort of commonality as you try to fix it. this president has not taken responsibility. the last president did not take responsibility. congress certainly has not taken responsibility, which is why the numbers are so bad. >> a wakeup call to what? finish the sentence. a wake up call to? >> to the people that have the responsibility. the importance of the american people, it is a wakeup call for them to acknowledge they are getting it wrong, their language is wrong, communication is wrong and most importantly, they have made so many mistakes. the first step is in listening.

>> my impression is that the military is the most trusted. >> even religious institutions have fallen in trust. >> thank you, frank. the fbi resumes the hunt for jimmy hoffa's body. a mobster led them to a site in oakland township, michigan. >> reporter: good morning, charlie, norah and gayle. they have found animal bones and a cement slab that reputed mobster, tony zerilli said would be there. he was in prison when jimmy hoffa disappeared but he insists he knows how he died and where he is buried. >> reporter: an hour north of detroit in a rural area, fbi agents are dig at a site where an old barn used to stand searching for the remains of the powerful teamster leader, jimmy hoffa. according to 85-year-old reputed mobster, hauf fa was buried

here, the victim of a hit ordered by a mob boss. zerilli sfoek to a detroit tv station yesterday. >> he was picked up and taken and buried alive. >> in a 22-page manuscript, zerilli added, a cement slab of some sort was placed on top of the dirt to make certain he was not going to be discovered. that was it. end of story. hauf fa, w hoffa, who allegedly had mob died was last seen outside a restaurant. some claims his body was buried in the end zone of the old giants stadium or in the everglades. zerilli was once the number two in command of detroit's mafie. in the manuscript he is selling online, he wrote, in the movies, people drive around with bodies

in a trunk and put them in meat grinders and incinerators, bury them in stadiums, put them through wood chchipers and so o and so forth. those things don't happen in life. >> david chaznik is a lawyer. >> mr. zerilli had a close relationship with mr. haffa. he is 85 years old. it is something that has bothered him for years. he wants to clear his conscious, help out the family and let the whole deal be put to rest once and for all. >> we have just learned the fbi has ended the search for

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there is someone to whom i must speak, the third runner up in sunday's miss usa pageant. to me, she is number one. from salt lake city, please welcome miss utah, marissa powell. do even you have any idea what that means? zab slight no clue. >> the first thing that came out of your mouth. >> i d i was so excited to be in the top five. i have all of my friends and family out there and i hear the question and i don't process it

and i just start talking. once i started speaking, i couldn't take it back. it was like, well, i could just smile and education. >> i think it is great she handled that. she had a duh moment and she is just making fun of herself. miss connecticut, by the way, won. >> she owned her mistake and is apologizing for it and making light of it. >> go, miss connecticut. consumer reports is out with its rankings of the best mobile device, more than 175 smart phones, tablets and cameras have been put to the test. paul reynolds is the editor for consumers report. we want to know what's the best smart phone out there according to consumer reports? >> the samsung s-4 is the model at the top of the ratings for each of our carriers. a lot of good phones out there.

we have more than 40 that we recommend. this is at the top of the ratings across the board. >> it does a lot of things really well, packed with features, really good battery life, great display. it even has some bells and whistles like controlled gestures. it actually knows if you look away when you are watching a video. it will actually pause the video. it has stuff for geeks as well as doing a lot of the basic things everybody wants for a phone. >> no keyboard. i am still hanging on to my blackberry. i just got the blackberry q-10. are they becoming a way of the past? please say no. >> blackberry is certainly one. the q-10 which is just out, not in our ratings yet. we do like it a lot. there are a lot of people that grew up using blackberry and so like to use that physical keyboard. most have moved to the virtual

keyboard. >> what about the iphone? >> it is still a great product, still the flagship for people that like apple and like iphones. what happened in the market, which i think is a really good thing for consumers, so many more manufacturers like samsung have got in there and innovation is no longer just apple. there is a lot of new stuff coming first on the android and the blackberry, the z-10 is a very innovative phone. in some ways, apple has maybe fallen a little behind in the innovation as far as hardware goes. >> i am going to look at that samsung. let's talk about tablets, though. that's a big deal for a lot of people. >> samsung, two of our top choices are the samsung galaxy 8, which is really a competitor to the pad mini, also, a very good product. some innovations here.

samsung has a style that it puts on to these devices, not only their phones but their tablets that allow you to scribble on things, send them along with your writing on top of the image, on top of the web page and so on. this is a really good choice. >> does that rate better than the miniipad? >> it is right on par with them. the ipad is still one of the top models and does a really superb job and has packed a lot of what people like in the full size ipad into a smaller one. the smaller ones are very popular, because they are very portable. >> cameras? >> a lot of great choices. people are using the smart phone cameras a lot. we still don't have things like zoom. low light, you still want a camera. a great choice is something like the nikon coolpixl 610.

you are going to get 14 times zoom. you are not going to get zoom on your smart phone. even though people are using their phones an even their tablets a lot to take photos, still a lot of room for cameras and a lot of interest for getting cameras because of the high quality and the ability to zoom in and the flexibility you get with the cameras. >> the deal announced with jay-z and samsung, do you think more people will want a samsung because of that? >> samsung is doing a savvy job in advertising. you are seeing a lot of the ads and the ability to cut into pop culture. yes, i think it probably will get more people interested. >> paul reynolds, thank you so much. we appreciate it. a real life scare for johnny depp on a movie set. you'll see what happens up ahead on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by citi simplicity card. go to citi.com/simplicity to apply.

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning. it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. we have new details about what led up to a dog attack that killed 6-year-old dixon native nephie selu. he was playing with the pit bull and when he tried to climb on his back, the dog bit him on the head. the pit bull mix is now in quarantine. san jose is suing major league baseball over the league's refusal to decide on whether the as can move to the city. the giants are standing in the way of that move claiming they have territorial rights to santa clara county. those rights were granted in the '90s after the giants failed to move to san jose. richmond will become the first city in contra costa county to ban plastic bags and gross -- at grocery and retail stores. customers can bring their own

bags or pay a nickel for each bag. the law goes into effect on new year's day 2014. >> traffic and weather coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,

good morning. if you are traveling southbound 680, it's pretty slow and go right now. there is an earlier crash approaching the sunol exit and there's another one in the same

area northbound 680 by stone valley. so we're seeing delays now in both directions. also, got some caltrain delays but bart systemwide so far on time. and taking a quick look outside, here's a live look at the nimitz and yeah, we have brake lights from the oakland coliseum up towards downtown. that's your latest traffic. for an update on your weather forecast, here's lawrence. >> a lot of sunshine around the bay area. still patchy fog at the coastline. the winds have been kicking up a bit already. we are going to see more of that this afternoon. pleasanton not too windy there but the breeze will be blowing especially in the afternoon hours at the coastline. temperatures right now in the 50s and the low 60s. this afternoon, though, we are talking about mid- to upper 70s inland. we'll see 60s and 70s and sunshine inside the bay. and temperatures in the 60s blustery at the coast. next couple of days as we sail into summer we're start to warm up the temperatures. cooling off though on sunday into monday. ,,,,,,,,

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, friday is the official start of summer, hooray, hooray. that has us thirching about road trips. we'll look at the five top getaways that are three hours or less from home and some of them may surprise you. and mo rocca will tell us about one of the most blank games in the world. mo, give us an adjective. >> bodacious. >> bodacious. good word. >> good word. >> good mo rocca beard. hey, where's the beard? mo is going to talk about the bodacious history of the game mad lib. that's my favorite.

straight ahead. the "washington post" says treasury secretary jack lew has a new signature whose old signature was eight loops. it looked like a doodle. he promised president obama his signature on new currency would be more legible. here's the new signature. you can actually make out a letter or two on $5 bills starting this fall i wonder how long he practiced to do that. the new post says dep fell off a horse. he faced tan toe. he said this is the most dangerous movie he's ever done. and "the seattle times" says starbucks will post calorie counts for its drinks and food per the requirement. 300 calories for a frappuccino,

that's a small one and 450 calories for a bun. barbara stries and is visiting israel for the first time since 1984. last night she performed a star-studded event for the first president but for the first time it might have been overshadowed by her opinion. charlie d'agata shows us why she spoke out for women's rights. >> reporter: it was an intimate gathering celebrating perez's upcoming 90th birthday. a-list friends like robert de niro, sharon stone, and president clinton who couldn't help but talk about his advanced age. >> we're here to pay tribute to the last israeli who knew king david. >> reporter: barbra streisand sang the most emotional rendition of a hebrew prayer.

but it was strie zand's performance the day before that's received the most attention of her visit, by receiving an honorary degree from hebrew university, the singer touched on one of the touchiest issues in israel. >> it's distressing to read about the women in israel being forced to sit in the back of a bus or when we hear about women of the wall having metal chairs hurled at them when they attempt to peacefully and legally pray, while women being banned from singing in public ceremonies, but i'm also pleased to read that things are changing here. repairs are slowly being made, and that's very good. >> reporter: this is what she was referring to. orthodox jews trying to prevent women wearing shawls singing at the wall. they campaigned for 25 years to pray on equal terms as men and in april a jerusalem court

backed the right. this morning we spoke with a woman's rights activist in tel a viv. >> barbara stries and's comment echos all over is real. >> reporter: stries and who entered israel as only a superstar can will be performing a couple of concerts while in the country. that famous voice commands attention on stage and now off it too. she says remaining silent about the violation of women's rights is tant municipality to accepting it. for "cbs this morning," i'm charlie d'agata in london. >> extraordinary to see that. >> she always speaks up wherever she goes. she's uniquely herself whenever she is. >> and quite a gathering for simon perez's 90th birthday. >> they're undergoing big changes. they're not only designing the mall of the future but they're betting big at shopping at the airport.

peter lowy is the co-chief executive officer. welcome. >> good morning. >> what are you doing? >> we're changing the nature of the way people shop at the mall today. >> what are you doing? >> the emphasis is moving away from just fashion and is focusing on food as well as fashion. >> do you want people to have an experience? i love a mall. there's a big distinction between a mall that's a great and a not so good one. >> what do you like? >> i look the look of a mall, a good food court. i really like a good food court and a good deal. >> we're not doing food courts anymore. >> even better. good food. >> exactly right. >> you want us to walk in there and feel what? >> we want you to want to come. we want to give you an experience that you can't get anywhere else and have you feel good and look at the mall as a place you want to go to. and i actually think that when you look at social networking we've got to the best place to social network in the world. >> why would people want to go

to a mall when you can buy virtually anything online? >> it's an experience. online you can look at it in 2 hd, but when you go to the mall, you can meet friends, people, see clothes, try it on. you can experience. >> have you witnessed a drop-off in the mall because of the online experience? >> not really. what retailers are now doing they're actually combining what you can do yop line as well as what you can do physically. so now 70% of our shoppers research what they want online and come to the mall to buy them. >> why at the airport? i think this is another good idea you're working on. >> you've got lots of good ideas, peter lowy. >> we try to have them. i noticed when frank luntz on, they only have 57% rating which is lower than the irs. but when you look at the airport business it's very difficult for the consumer or air traveler

today. it's busy, you have to go there two or three hours before and the experience isn't pleasant. so we try to give them something to look forward to. >> back to malls do you like big box tenants like target, costco, or best buy? >> we actually do. we're bringing in costco's. we've been expanding target with food. they're one of the best retailers in the country at the moment. >> what i want is somebody that i can find that will give me information and knows it as quick as i can. that's the hardest thing. i ooh e a diminishing breed. >> you can do a lot of things before you go to the store, look up items. and their for joining

us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. school's out and summer is almost here. it is time to hit the road. we'll talk with travel editor voters. they're all very close.,,

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the best weekend getaways. you get to stay in the u.s., and that's a good thing. you won't lose your shirt. arabella is here with us. let's stark with new york city. earlier i recommended charlie's place but he didn't seem to think -- what's the address so we all know where to go. >> it's in montauk. no, i lie. >> but montauk is on your list sniet is on our list. it's two and a half hours away. >> at 3:00 a.m.? that that's so true. >> if you take a train, it's a little faster. many new yorkers go by car. it's all about the beaches in the summer. great destination for family and girlfriends getaway. >> great fishing. >> great fishing. local institution since 1947.

you also can go out and learn how to surf there as well. you don't have to go to l.a. to do that. >> and good people watching. >> yes, good people watching. >> what about boston? >> from boston we love newport, rhode island. it's an hour and a half south of there. you've got these beautiful old mansions that are open for tours. you don't want to miss the breakers which is the vanderbilts' former family cottage and do"downton abbey" h the tours. you have luxury cruises at sunset and there's great shopping as bannisters wharf as well. >> chicago? >> chicago, we love galena. population, under 4,000. great for history buffs. a trolly tour that will take you past all these historic houses,

85 of which are on the u.s. rosster and the home of ulysses grant i never heard of it. charlie? >> it's one of the great small towns in america. san francisco. >> san francisco, great choice there. of course, many people think from san francisco they want to go to wine country. that i oar going to go to napa or sir rona. it's less expensive than going north. >> denver. >> it's great. it's the second home of anheuser-busch. it's great guys' getaway for that region. >> do you have to go test all these places? >> all these places all the time. >> all the restaurants, all the

bars. >> i know. it's a tough life. >> what is the difference between a girls' getaway and a great guys' getaway? >> the girls are where the guys are and the guys are where the girls are. >> lots of beer, rugged outdoor activities. in colorado you're going to go white-water rafting. doimgt know how many girls are going go do that. >> norah o'donnell. >> and the female getaway. >> spas, wine tasting, being out on the water on a nice sunset cruise with champagne. >> thank you. before alec baldwin and others started playing words with friends there was another game called mad lib. mo rocca fills in the blanks if you will coming up next on "cbs this morning."

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this has been medifacts for pronamel rinse. a great picture of new york. you know the concept for the word game mad libs was invented in 1963, six decades later it's as popular as ever. 120 million copies sold and recently mad libs returned to its roots with the focus on games for grown-ups. mo rocca is here, good morning. >> good morning, norah. mad libs may be a favorite for kid but was for cocktail parties and invented almost by accident by two very accomplished comedy writers. surely you know what a mad lib is. that fill in the blank choose your own story game in a book, book in a game. but you might not know is the

history of mad libs is as splendiferous as it is chocolatey. chocolatey isn't quite the word but that's what makes mad libs fun. you fill in the word, context to be dammed. >> hey, alice. >> mad libs owes existence to the sit com "the honeymooners." >> your ring? >> and it's hapless let loveable obstetrician ralph kramden. >> he wasn't an obstetrician, he was a bus driver. leonard stern was agonizing over a script looking for the right word when he turned to his best friend, roger price. >> he needed to describe ralph kramden's boss's nose. >> the president of mad lib's publisher. >> so he asks roger for one and -- >> clumsy and naked.

>> hi, ool lis. >> a clumsy and naked nose? the two laughed so hard they knew they were on to something. in 1958 the two self-published 14,000 copies of mad libs, stern by then head writer of the steve allen show, convinced allen to use mad libs to introduce his guests. >> bob hope is the first guess they ever introduced that way. the next day they pretty much sold to the 14,000 copies. >> those are now more than 120 million sold worldwide. they recently have gone back to their roots launching adult mad libs with titles like countdown to midnight, my bleeping family and party girl mad libs. >> adjective. >> just this year they introduced a new mad libs app. >> part of the body swirl. >> mad libs is successful because it's simple. anyone who knows basic english,

they only come in english, can play. >> from children. >> 9,000. >> pancreas. >> thirsty. >> dirty. >> smelly. >> tap shoes. >> and even celebrities. >> noun, submarine. >> let's see. running. >> i'm not interested in doing mad libs with somebody who just wants to come up with the strangest words possible. i think sometimes it is possible that over do it with mad libs. >> it is. and it can be challenging to sort of keep yourself sort of toned back and not become the sixth-grader all over again. >> other names said to love mad libs, the rapper formerly known as snoop dogg. and now known as snoop lion. no, that's not a mad lib gone wild, that's his name. another fan, jersey shore's the situation. wait a minute, wouldn't that be more of an ab lib? there are other celebrities the publisher hopes to work with. >> we have a very, very good

list, i have one fantasy person on the list. >> wow. can you use cbs this morning exclusi exclusive? give me an adjective to describe this person. >> provocative. >> hmm. >> fun. >> love it. >> and we actually have a mad lib about cbs this morning. i'd like to read it to you. cbs this morning is a fresh morning show perfect for those viewers too tall for other bumpy morning shows. together charlie rose, gayle king and norah o'donnell are a sleek team. charlie is the mysterious one, even though his job as cab driver of cbs' morning is a far run from the round oak pharmacy and turquoise backdrop of the charlie rose show, he is still the kangaroo's pajama, dancing the news. when rock winner gayle king isn't busy with her job as dentist at large she is glorious at twirling the news on the second tire of cbs this morning.

and former correspondent norah o'donnell is also strangely knowledgeable about current events and flowers. tunen to watch these three shepherds without all of the bananas the others give you. plus where else can you can all of you -- where else can you learn all about your nose in only 42 seconds. >> awesome. >> nice. mo rocca. >> a group effort. >> during the piece it was beard on beard off. >> it's interesting. i'm torn about it. with the beard i'm hotter, without the beard -- >> hotter meaning? >> hot, sexy. without, and that's not an ad l lib. without the beard i'm more wholesome. >> you prefer sex to wholesome. >> internal polling showed -- >> hot is better in all things. >> mo rocca.

thank you. that does it for us. up next your local news.,,

san jose is suing major leae baseball...over the league's inabilit good morning. it's 8:55. your 5 headlines. san jose is suing major league baseball over the league's inability to decide on whether the as can move to the city. the giants are standing in the way of the move claiming they have rights to the county. those rights were granted in the 90s after the giants failed to move to san jose. reforms for police will be re-examined starting next month. the retired police chief will return to the police department to assess the changes that follow the oscar grant shooting. topping the list of issues he will focus on, use of force by police and training. fire inspectors will investigate a motel 6 today before it can reopen. the motel was damaged by a

grass fire that lit up around 7:00 last night. strong winds directed the flames to the motel. firefighters got all the guests out safely. and no one was had allowed to spend the night there. and now today's forecast. >> the winds probably the big weather story for today. again, blustery at times especially toward the coastline. take tow the beach right now where we have sunshine there. a few clouds in the distance. and although the winds are going to be whipping toward the afternoon, gradual warming beginning today as the low passes and heads eastward,ing up nicely. for today, mid- to upper 70s inland. and 60s blustery towards the coastline this afternoon. next couple day, less wind and more sunshine and the first weekend of summer on the warm side. we will check out your traffic next. ,,,,,,,,,, ,,

good morning. an earlier crash by high street just north of the camera. it is now cleared. off to thing right-hand shoulder. still seeing brake lights far south of davis and continuing towards downtown. let's go to bay bridge now. and we still have a big back-up even this late in the morning commute. stuck at the foot of the maze. and just getting word of a late morning crash eastbound 380 by airport boulevard. ,,,,,,,,

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